I don't think that's possible. If I recall correctly, the DMCA was written so that it wasn't possible to be punished if you misused it. Was to allow big companies to use bots to scan and demand things removed, and if they demanded the wrong thing, oh well.

(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

But of course you need a prosecutor to actually charge someone of perjury. I don't know if it's ever been attempted, and there might be some weasely lawery way out of it I don't know about.

The most recent Beta driver (the one that was recommended for the BF4 beta) seems okay to me, so I'll give this a go. For me, the drivers between that and 314.22 caused Windows (8) to lock up, or enter inescapable driver reset loops. Also only when on the desktop, not in games.

Prez wrote on Oct 21, 2013, 18:32:Hopefully TB had the infringement strike by Youtube rescinded as it clearly was unwarranted. Maybe this will help fix the broken system over there.

It won't. There are inappropriate DMCA takedowns all the time, several that are moderately high profile. I don't know that anyone has successfully pressed charges of perjury because of a false DMCA claim yet.

Youtube's ass is only covered if they respond to takedown notices:

(1) In general.— A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, ... if the service provider—...(C) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in paragraph (3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.

Firefall isn't a WOW-type game in any way. There's no auto-attack. It's a f2p first/third-person shooter. The PvP resembles something like TF2, in self-contained instanced matches. The PvE takes place in a largish, free-roaming multiplayer world (Planetside is a closer comparison for the PvE world)

Fantaz wrote on Sep 13, 2013, 15:11:imo all those effects can be done in software without needing special hardware.

Sure, it just can't be done anywhere near as quickly. Engines are starting to get their own GPU particle/physics implementations though (e.g. the previously mentioned Assassin's Creed 4; UE4), and Bullet's next major version has GPU acceleration.

Creston wrote on Aug 15, 2013, 21:54:Once you've heard a few toolbags like the MS Shamwow guy (Look how far I have my tongue up Microsoft's ass! That's deep! AND NO LEAKAGE! AMAZING!) it's easy to just assume that every dev is a publisher-cock sucking whore and to just treat them as the enemy.

You don't really like a guy, so someone treating him and other game developers as something less than human is kinda understandable? I don't get it.

HorrorScope wrote on Jun 25, 2013, 00:03:That headset is a pretty big deal to, I guess they are hoping that players now deem it a necessity. Like how the PS4 will have it in every box.

I did use a Kinect instead of an Xbox 360 headset for voice for awhile. It didn't pick up any background noise. The only problem was that it wouldn't pick me up if I talked softly, as I'm accustomed to doing with headsets to save my voice. You also can't easily dial the volume and mute the thing like you can with a headset.

A poster who is about a month old starts a thread on the new hot game, and from that point on that's all they talk about on the forum. Looking at their posts before that point, this person just posts "me too"-type posts; quick, devoid of content, often barely even related to the thread they're posting in.

That could be a fanboy, but sometimes these are from games you wouldn't expect that from, and the weird posting pattern before shill mode is extremely suspicious. I have seen this for games from larger companies. I've seen a forum with multiple suspect posters like this who all focus on games from one larger company.

From what I've heard, and it may just be conspiracy mongering, the good ones aren't that obvious. They have software to keep track of personas and they ride the quiet period for longer before breaking into shill mode.

I don't doubt that the vast majority of one-shots and "shills" are actually fanboys or possibly even developers, though.

I really like the cockpit view in GRID. Yes, it was a silly unrealistic game, but at least it was a visceral silly unrealistic game. The only racing games I've played in third person in the last... several years have been Criterion games.

People talk about how Netflix is short on content. I've been following its suggestions (well, picking things based on predicted star rating; the "Top 10" and the like somehow don't make much sense) and watching things I'd never think of watching before, a lot of which is terrific. I've yet to run out of things to watch.